Supply and Dema- er, I mean Drain

[Master_Artificer]

I need information!

Do drain beams "transfer" shields/energy to your craft? Do they require energy to activate? Can AI use them? Can things be slaved to them?

(example: sticking 5 blocks on a turret, will the AI use that beam in battle to drain shields from enemies to replenish its own?)

What is the rate per block? How short is the range? Do they have a visual firing animation? Can you color it? Does it increase linearly or quadraticly or logarithmicly with blocks added? I can't find anything on redit or the wiki!

 

[max stripe]

AI doesnt use them
you cant slave them
you cant color them
power usage scales
both beams transfer. drain takes frm target and gives to you. supply gives to target and takes from you


(pm me if you want further details on my past experiments with them)

 

[Lecic]

You can't slave them to things, but they do work as a master system.

 

[Andir]

Well, you could hook a transfer computer to a clock and mount it facing forward and the AI will point at the closest enemy, so you could have an AI controlled turret (but it would be on all the time. :p)

 

[EricBlank]

Well, with wireless logic access in the next version you'll be able to turn it on/off more readily

But the shield drain beam is incredibly effective, I find. It continues to drain the targets shields even if your own are fully charged. Supplying it with enough power is the biggest issue.